Above Gisèle Bündchen, who has returned to model for H&M, first appeared in 2000 for the company’s summer swimwear.

In a few weeks’ time, Forbes will release its table of the world’s top-earning models for June 2012 to June 2013.
   Lucire didn’t report on the numbers last year, but if we did, we would have noticed that Heidi Klum disappeared from the league tables, after being in a consistent second place for years. Forbes had taken her off the list, saying that she was more a businesswoman than a model. It’s not entirely fair, since Klum, 40, still models (granted, they are usually products she is associated with), and we estimate her earnings are still in the eight figures.
   Natalia Vodianova shot up into third, more than doubling her 2011 figure. Miranda Kerr was back in the top 10 after having a baby, while Lara Stone’s number dropped with her pregnancy (she became a Mum in May).
   But can we make a call on the rankings, just looking at the trends and how much coverage the models have received in our pages?
   There’s no doubt that Gisèle Bündchen will remain top dog. Her earning figure was at $25 million for 2009 and 2010, and a whopping $45 million for the past two years. We haven’t seen Bündchen as much in the last year, but she has inked deals with H&M (which is securing big names with Donald Schneider on its team) and C&A.
   Kate Moss will secure second place. St Tropez has been her most recent gig, though figures were not reported at the time. Moss still gets headlines, so she’ll either be in the high seven figures, but we think she could head into the low eights again.
   Adriana Lima has traditionally followed Moss, but Natalia Vodianova overtook her by $1·3 million in 2012, getting to $8·6 million over Lima’s $7·3 million. That was helped with her contracts with Guerlain and Etam (she helps design her own lingerie collection there, à la Elle Macpherson), a deal with Russian retailer Centro, and continuing to walk the catwalk for some major labels. So the Vodianova–Lima ordering from 2012 is likely to be preserved.
   Doutzen Kroes is getting plenty of attention in our pages, propelled in part through her contract as a L’Oréal Paris face. She netted just under $7 million last year, and it’s going to be a toss-up between her and Alessandra Ambrosio for 2013 for fifth place, both of whom rank similarly in terms of mentions here. Kroes was missing in the top 10 in 2011 due to her pregnancy but has pipped Ambrosio twice since 2009—but only by $300,000–$500,000. We’re making a call that the order’s going to stay the same for fifth and sixth, too.
   Karlie Kloss should be up there in 2013. People with Money puts Kloss’s net worth at $275 million but in terms of annual earnings, the number is bound to be lower. We’re putting the value of the Cover Girl cosmetics and Christian Dior contracts, her fashion and perfume lines, walking for many top names, and her new Victoria’s Secret ‘Angel’ role in the seven figures, and our bet is that she’ll find herself in seventh.
   Miranda Kerr would, consequently, get bumped down one place, but her earnings should stay within the $4 million–$5 million region. That leaves Carolyn Murphy and Candice Swanepoel from last year’s tables, models who have typically been in the $3 million club. Murphy has not been searched for much here, nor has she merited much mention, so we wonder where she will be ranked. We’re thinking Swanepoel might pip Murphy this year, with her continuing Victoria’s Secret and other contracts.
   Emanuela de Paula has not made much headway since getting into 11th place in 2009, which continues to suggest that globally, Caucasian models tend to have it easier at this point.

Updated with videos on May 16, 2013, 12.21 p.m. GMT and May 23, 2013, 2.01 p.m. GMT


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Top celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Cara Delevingne, Sonam Kapoor, Lana Del Rey, Nicole Kidman, Zhang Ziyi, Georgia May Jagger, supermodel Cindy Crawford, Fan Bingbing, Inès de La Fressange, Isla Fisher, singer Florence Welch, designer Jean-Claude Jitrois, Freida Pinto, Ludivine Sagnier, Julianne Moore, Bai Ling, Lady Victoria Hervey, Phoebe Price, Lorie, Paz Vega, Frédérique Bel, Elizabeth Debicki, Zhang Yuqi, Mallika Sherawat, Josephine Jobert, Tanya Dziahileva, Vahina Giocante, Aurelie Filippetti, Clotilde Courau, Michel Piccoli, and Hayley Roberts and David Hasselhoff—the Hoff himself—attended the 66th Cannes Film Festival opening gala at the Théâtre Lumière.
   Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux, meanwhile, hosted the Festival de Cannes’ opening dinner, with award-winning chefs Anne-Sophie Pic (three Michelin stars) and Bruno Oger (two Michelin stars) at the Electrolux Agora Pavilion for the third consecutive year, treating guests to a four-course meal.
   The 2013 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was the first film to kick off the events at Cannes. The movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann, stars DiCaprio and Fisher.
   It is one of 20 films in contention for the Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, competing with Behind the Candelabra, a bio-pic about Liberace, and Only God Forgives, starring Ryan Gosling, among others.
   The 2013 jury is headed by Steven Spielberg and includes Nicole Kidman and Christoph Waltz.

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Kate Moss is the new face of St Tropez, the self-tanning brand, leading its first global advertising campaign.
   Two shots have been released: one of Moss in a white, one-piece swimsuit, and another in the nude.
   The campaign will be in print and online, and appear in point-of-sale materials from summer 2013. St Tropez is also encouraging users to use the hashtag offtosttropez on Twitter for a prize draw, which will include a holiday.
   The company has also issued a how-to video on how to get Moss’s tan in the campaign. Says Nichola Joss, St Tropez’s global tanning and skin-finishing expert, ‘To achieve Kate’s pool-side bronze for the shoot, the St Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse applied with a St Tropez Applicator Mitt gives a natural-looking, streak-free result with a flawless finish. St Tropez Powder Bronzer perfects the look with a beautiful contoured effect and enhances the natural shape of Kate’s body.’
   The iconic supermodel says she has used the St Tropez brand since its inception.
   Michelle Feeney, CEO of PZ Cussons Beauty, the owner of St Tropez, said in a release, ‘As a global beauty brand with a heritage in tanning, St Tropez is now in 18 countries and women from Rio to LA are seeking the benefits of safe tanning. Kate’s fashion icon status is important to us but now her growing number of beauty campaigns proves that her appeal as a beauty icon resonates with confident women across all age groups globally.’

Above Olivia Newton-John at G’day USA’s Los Angeles event in 2011.

The 10th anniversary G’day USA Los Angeles black-tie gala, part of the annual event celebrating Australia in the US, will see Golden Globe nominees Hugh Jackman and Glenn Close join Olivia Newton-John at the J. W. Marriott at LA Live on January 12. Awards will be presented to Paul Hogan, Rose Byrne and John Travolta.
   Elle Macpherson and Richard Wilkins will co-MC the event.
   Entertainment will include performances by Jessica Mauboy (The Sapphires), Jack Vidgen, David Campbell, didgeridoo player William Barton and the Qantas Choir. Photographer Wayne Quilliam will provide imagery to accompany the performances.
   Past honorees, including Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, Mel Gibson, Toni Colette, Keith Urban, Anthony LaPaglia, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Air Supply and Luc Longley will attend.
   Australian chef Curtis Stone is preparing an Australian-inspired dinner.
   The event, with 1,000 guests, has already been sold out.
   Seven cities participate in G’day USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York, Chicago, Houston and Boston) bringing together events promoting business, government, environment, innovation, culture and tourism. The events are produced by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Qantas Airways, Tourism Australia and Austrade.

News: our full report from the British Fashion Awards, with videos and interviews, can be found here

As the British Fashion Awards take place tonight, we’ll bring you coverage as soon as videos and photography become available.
   Tonight’s first video, broadcast prior to the presentation of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Savoy, features celebrities and editors praising the winner, Manolo Blahnik, CBE.
   Anna Wintour, Suzy Menkes, Kate Moss, Grace Coddington, Alexandra Shulman, Franca Sozzani, Lady Amanda Harlech, Anjelica Huston, David Bailey, Naomi Campbell, and Michael Roberts call him, among other accolades, ‘energetic’ and ‘deserving’ in the clip below.
   Menkes congratulates Blahnik not only on the award but on 40 years in business: it was 40 years ago when Ossie Clark invited Blahnik to design shoes for his collection. The following year, Blahnik set up a boutique in his own name in London.
   The video concludes with Bailey jokingly stating, ‘That’s enough, it’s just f***ing high-heel shoes.’

Sarah Jessica Parker was guest of honour—with Minnie Mouse—at the unveiling of Barney’s New York window display on Wednesday. The Electric Holiday display, with a Minnie theme, features a cartoon of the same name that sees the Disney character venture to meet various fashion icons, including Parker, Lady Gaga, supermodels Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell, model Daphne Guinness, editors Suzy Menkes, Carine Roitfeld, Bridget Foley, Anna dello Russo, Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani, Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt, Harper’s Bazaar editor-in-chief Glenda Bailey, The New York Times’ fashion critic Cathy Horyn, photographers Steven Meisel, Jürgen Teller and Mario Sorrenti, blogger Bryan Boy, hairstylists Julien d’Ys and Guido Palau, make-up artist Pat McGrath, designers Alber Elbaz and Nicolas Ghesquière, and publicist Ed Filipowski.
   Parker donned lace designer mouse ears, which had been designed by L’Wren Scott, for the unveiling, paired with a long-sleeved shift dress.
   The Electric Holiday film was previewed in the summer, though there was early controversy over the reimagining of Disney characters to have model-like figures for the catwalk show at the end of the cartoon.
   Barney’s creative director Dennis Freedman had defended the change, saying, ‘The standard Minnie Mouse will not look so good in a Lanvin dress. There was a real moment of silence, because these characters don’t change. I said, “If we’re going to make this work, we have to have a 5 ft 11 Minnie,” and they agreed. When you see Goofy, Minnie and Mickey, they are runway models.’
   Minnie wears Lanvin for the majority of the cartoon. Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Daisy Duck, Donald Duck and Snow White all don designer clothing from the likes of Balenciaga, Balmain, Dolce & Gabbana, and Nina Ricci.
   Videos of the launch and the Electric Holiday cartoon can be viewed below. Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol) scored the cartoon.

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One year ago, Kate Moss launched her first lipstick with events at Claridge’s and the Battersea Power Station, tying in with London Fashion Week. The collaboration has continued with Rimmel, with winter 2012–13 shades, which went on sale on October 3.
   The new matte-finish lipsticks, which come in five shades, ranging from fuchsia and pink to coral, are priced at £5·49 each.
   Rimmel says that Moss also contributed the packaging design. It features a matte red pack with her signature in black.
   The continuation of the collaboration with Rimmel shows just how enduring Moss’s image is. The 38-year-old supermodel continues to be appealing to beauty companies, and remains one of the modelling industry’s top earners.
   Last Friday, Rimmel launched a competition with the UK edition of Condé Nast’s Glamour magazine. The winner will receive a £150 hamper, while each of the 100 runners-up will receive one of the new matte lipsticks. Readers can check out the competition via GlamourMagazine.co.uk.
   Moss has worked with Rimmel for ten years. Last year’s celebrations included an advertising campaign that featured her departing a Croydon parking building via helicopter, which subsequently flies over the O2 and Tower Bridge. The same helicopter actually dropped Moss home after the shoot.
   The Battersea after-party launching the campaign saw Moss arrive by helicopter as well. Donna Air, Sadie Frost, Steve Mormoris, Cara Delevingne, the Noisettes, Solange Knowles and Georgia May Jagger were among the guests.
   Moss has also said that the first lipstick she ever wore was from Rimmel, called Heather Shimmer, an iridescent lilac.

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Elle Macpherson Intimates’ latest season embarks on a voyage of discovery in 1950s Hawai‘i and continues to the African plains. In a release, supermodel Elle Macpherson, creative director of the brand, states, ‘My latest collection is a compilation of sketches, paintings and experiences transformed into lingerie through the use of print, embroidery, lace and styling.
   ‘I really love this new collection, with beautiful new prints and colours. Well designed lingerie really changes the shape of your body under clothes so hips, waist and breasts look the best they can. It’s the underpinning of everything.’
   These elegant and charming pieces have been designed to enhance every woman’s beauty, with options featuring a boost cup or contour cup styling. The collection is on sale from July to December 2012 in New Zealand.—Samantha O’Reilly